History
Provides students with a deeper understanding of the history of African slavery in the Americas by allowing them to step in the shoes of late-eighteenth century abolitionists and fight the Atlantic slave trade.
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Rice University · History
6.9% of Rice University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
6%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
8%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Furthest-left subjects
History
This course surveys the Cuban Revolution in its historical context. It will focus on the period since 1959, but also place revolutionary events in their broader time and regional contexts, and evaluate their larger significance, through…
History
Seminar examines the origins of the political left and its global manifestations in the 20th century world. Focusing especially on the global south, the seminar explores the ways marginalized groups interpreted and applied leftist politics…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Course will explore the Founding Fathers' attitudes towards slaves, towards slavery, and towards racial difference, beginning with interpretations of the Founders as a group, and moving to case studies of individual founders. Students will…
History
Seminar uses sources from the time and historians' interpretations to analyze Nazism and the Holocaust, especially pre-war racial policy; economic policy; labor; the war experience; and the phases and legacies of the Holocaust.
History
Students in this course will work with the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, perform original research on the history of Rice University, and situate that research within a broader national & international context of…
Why this number, in plain words
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice University · History | bias_left_share | 6.9 | — | 204 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- Formula
- 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
- Interval
- Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.